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President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko marks his 49th birthday today. As Ukrinform reports, starting with 1998, Poroshenko was people’s deputy of Ukraine of the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th convocations. In 2005, he was the NSDC Secretary in the government of Yulia Tymoshenko. In 2007-2012, he was Chairman of the National Bank Council, in 2009-2010...

Ukraine increased import of gas reverse from the European Union in January-September 2014 by 600 million cu m or by 30% against the same period of 2013 to 2 billion cu m. The Ukrtransgas press service informed. “Since the beginning of the current month, 798 million cu m of natural gas was imported from Europe to Ukraine, and since the beginning...

The Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine has already signed a contract for a monthly supply to Ukraine of 250,000 tonnes of coal from South Africa. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Volodymyr Hroisman said this on the Channel 5 television station,...

The first stage of the “Wall” project, which envisages full rearrangement of the border between Ukraine and Russia, is planned to be completed September 30. The Cabinet’s press service informs. “For implementation of the “Wall” project, the government has already allocated UAH 100 million. Work started to build engineering structures, the...

The Contact Group with the participation of the OSCE and Russia will start its work in Donbas on Friday. The ATO Press Center announced this on its Facebook page. “The ATO forces worked a series of measures aimed at organization of work of the contact group with the participation of the OSCE and the Russian Federation. Today, this group...

Russia, after voting for UN Security Council Resolution 2178 on strengthening the responsibility for assistance to terrorist organizations, has pledged to stop supporting its terrorists in Donbas. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said this at UN headquarters in New York, according to the government portal. “We hope that Russia...

Russia should immediately withdraw its armed forces from Ukraine, otherwise, the costs will be further intensified. The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) countries said this after a meeting in New York, according to Ukrinform. “Russia must immediately meet its own commitments of the Minsk agreement, including by withdrawing all...

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned against hopes for quick solution of the Ukrainian-Russian conflict. He told this in New York, Thursday, DW informs. “In Eastern Ukraine we managed to prevent, likely, a large military confrontation… But still we are far from the political solution and further away from real political...

Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk believes that Russia intends “to freeze Ukraine.” Yatseniuk said to the Reuters agency on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. “They (Russia – Ed.) want to freeze us. This is a goal, and there is another trump in the Russian hands. Besides the military operation against Ukraine, they have...

A mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will visit Ukraine in November 2014 to review the program of cooperation with the country, the press office of the National Bank of Ukraine has reported. “The mission is coming for the second review of the stand-by program,” the report says. On September 25, Ukrainian President...